High Availability of the CMS

Customers can setup their CMS in a virtual infrastructure (ESXi, Hyper-V, AWS, Azure,or KVM) that supports high availability. The following HA models can be used to enable a fault tolerant CMS.

CMS High Availability and Disaster Recovery Features

CMS Global HA and Disaster Recovery Scenarios	VMware ESXi / Microsoft Hyper-V/ AWS /Azure / KVM	Comments
HA Clustering	Yes	Seamless transition of CMS in a HA cluster from host 1 to host 2, when host 1 is rebooted or shutdown
Cloning of CMS	Yes	CMS can be successfully cloned followed by resumption of communication with managed appliances and the License Manager service
Export/Import	Yes	CMS could be successfully exported from host 1 and imported to host 2 followed by resumption of communication with managed appliances and the License Manager service.
Snapshot/Checkpoint	Yes	Successful preservation and transition